PROVIDED NOTICE THAT TRINITY RAILWAY EXPRESS, PURSUANT TO A WRITTEN TRACKAGE RIGHTS AGREEMENT DATED MAY 2, 2014, HAS AGREED TO GRANT UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY TEMPORARY OVERHEAD TRACKAGE RIGHTS OVER APPROXIMATELY 1.4 MILES OF THE TRE RAIL CORRIDOR IN FT. WORTH, TEX., BETWEEN MILEPOST 610.5 (THE T&P STATION) AND MILEPOST 611.9 (THE 6TH STREET JUNCTION).

Trinity Railway Express
(TRE),[1]pursuant to a written
trackage rights agreement dated May 2, 2014, has agreed to grant Union
Pacific Railroad Company (UP) temporary overhead trackage rights
over approximately 1.4 miles of the TRE Rail Corridor in Ft. Worth, Tex., between
milepost 610.5 (the T&P Station) and milepost 611.9 (the 6th
Street Junction).

The transaction
may be consummated on or after June 7, 2014, the effective date of the
exemption (30 days after the verified notice of exemption was filed).The temporary trackage rights are scheduled
to expire on December 30, 2014.The
purpose of the temporary trackage rights is to allow UP to continue providing
rail service between adjacent UP lines during outages on connecting UP lines
caused by construction of improvements to Tower 55.

As a condition to
the exemption, any employees affected by the acquisition of the temporary
trackage rights will be protected by the conditions imposed in Norfolk &
Western Railway—Trackage Rights—Burlington Northern, Inc., 354 I.C.C. 605
(1978), as modified in Mendocino Coast Railway—Lease & Operate—California
Western Railroad, 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980), and any employees
affected by the discontinuance of those trackage rights will be protected by
the conditions set out in Oregon Short Line Railroad—Abandonment Portion
Goshen Branch Between Firth & Ammon, in Bingham & Bonneville Counties,
Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 91 (1979).

The verified notice of
exemption is filed under 49 C.F.R. § 1180.2(d)(8).If it contains false or misleading
information, the exemption is void ab initio.Petitions to revoke the exemption under 49
U.S.C. § 10502(d) may be filed at any time.The filing of a petition to revoke will not
automatically stay the effectiveness of the exemption.Petitions for stay must be filed no later
than May 30, 2014 (at least seven days before the exemption becomes effective).

An original and
10 copies of all pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 35827,
must be filed with the Surface Transportation Board, 395 E Street, S.W.,
Washington, DC 20423-0001.In addition,
a copy of each pleading must be served on Jeremy Berman, 1400 Douglas Street,
Union Pacific Railroad Company, STOP 1580, Omaha, NE 68179.

Board decisions and
notices are available on our website at “WWW.STB.DOT.GOV.”

Decided:May 19, 2014.

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell,
Director, Office of Proceedings.

[1]Dallas Area
Rapid Transit (DART) and the Fort Worth Transportation Authority (the T) are
regional transportation authorities established under Chapter 452 of the
Texas Transportation Code.SeeDall.
Area Rapid Transit—Acquis.&
Operation Exemption—Certain Lines of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., FD 32611 (ICC served Mar.
17, 1995).DART and the
T are collectively referred to as Trinity Railway Express.